Thought of another reason why there are many Indians on the forum but they refrain from posting in the Indian board. And I think it has to do with the Signature ... job? that they are doing.
Because the posts they make on local board is not counted towards the posts that pay, they don't see any reason to post here. They'd rather spend the time and effort to post somewhere on the forum where it pays.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Monetary compensation is a great motivator. Tell a kid to go to the store and get you some bread and they'll be like "My legs are hurting", then tell them there's a 20 in it for them and wham! and it is like you were never out of bread.
I don't agree to that (not posting in Local board because of monetary benefits) because if it were so then the Indians would definitely take part in the Raffle.
Heisenberg has been organizing Raffles since so many months now but it takes quite a lot of time to fill up the spots.
Everybody know's it is free. Why would anybody not want to grab the opportunity to win 0.001 BTC ?
It's free money and no KYC. So according to your reason the spots in Raffle should be taken almost the same or the next day but it instead takes about a month.
You can check the lastest Raffle below. It's been 5 days since it started but not even 50% of the spots are taken.
[GUY FAWKES DAY RAFFLE] #8 - Pick a lucky number and win 0.001 bitcoinMatter of fact, even you have not applied on it yet. No offense but it is what it is.
Well, if the ANN for an altcoin is in English they don't deserve a place in our local board. But if the ANN is for a service related to our country is in English, they deserve to be placed in the main board. Other than that, if the ANN is for an altcoin in regional languages they should be created in Announcements child board which we would be requesting soon.
The regional languages board should be used for discussion related to bitcoin and other bitcoin related news in India (but in regional languages). Since we have too many languages, I think famous languages like Hindi/Bengali and Tamil/Telugu should be created in regional languages board.
Willing to know the opinions on my above mentioned idea ^^^
Okay that seems quite logical. But yeah, I would recommend adding a rule that posts in regional languages should have the language in their title.
Sometimes I just open a thread and wonder what language it could be. Adding a language in title such as [Hindi], [Tamil], [Bengali] etc... would help the reader identify the language of a thread before opening it. If a reader doesn't know any language he can simply choose not to open that thread at all.
We need the reporter count stats for that to happen and those stats are with theymos. The top good reporter can have the ability to handle spams AFAIK but that alone isn't important and they can range from trustworthiness and being neutral. We can also keep a voting for that to happen may be? See this :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5043836.msg53390773#msg53390773Yes a poll would be a good idea. One thing I would like to ask is I have noticed few times that posts reported in this board often goes unhandled.
I had reported few posts earlier but I guess those are still unhandled. This discourages me to report posts. It should either go good or bad.